Belgae

Dated to the end of the fourth or beginning of the third century B.C., these cult centers were the work of warlike tribes called the Belgae, thought to have arrived in northern Gaul from central Europe at the end of the great Celtic invasions of the fourth century B.C.

Gallic Blood Rites 2001

Of all these, the Belgae are the bravest, because they are furthest from the civilization and refinement of [our] Province, and merchants least frequently resort to them, and import those things which tend to effeminate the mind; and they are the nearest to the Germans, who dwell beyond the Rhine, with whom they are continually waging war; for which reason the Helvetii also surpass the rest of the Gauls in valor, as they contend with the Germans in almost daily battles, when they either repel them from their own territories, or themselves wage war on their frontiers.

Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars: with the Supplementary Books attributed to Hirtius. 1869

“I do have an idea how to keep the Belgae in order.”

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Its people were tribal, divided into Celtae and Belgae.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Its people were tribal, divided into Celtae and Belgae.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Belgae The fearsome confraternity of tribes inhabiting the northwestern region of Long-haired Gaul, adjacent to the Rhine.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Belgae The fearsome confraternity of tribes inhabiting the northwestern region of Long-haired Gaul, adjacent to the Rhine.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

“I do have an idea how to keep the Belgae in order.”

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Whether he were some great one of the Belgae, or of the

A Changed Man 2006

And so in complete peace and amity we followed the Isara River north from the Sequana, and came finally to the lands of a tribe of Belgae called the Atuatuci.

The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990